Quotes By Nicolas Chamfort

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.